Quote The new anti-metric message board (for people who like science and the scientific basis of measurement) had over 700 page-reads in March as of mid-month. This means that March is roughly like February (which had over 1400 reads for the month).
The reason for all the read-only activity is still unclear. Your picture is an oversimplification. the metric system is not a coherent stable whole (it has internal contradictions and it is in flux) and the US does not use the "Imperial System". The gist of this board is that METRIC SUCKS. It is a sterile evolutionary dead-end. The leading-edge work in fundamental physics has abandoned metric and is using so-called "natural units". * I wonder what these 'natural units' are. Cosmology likewise. It is a pre-revolutionary situation. Very interesting. Quotes by top people utterly dismissing metric (once the Sacred Cow) are easy to find by google or in sci.phsics.research of Usenet. One would have to be a fool or simpleton to try to limit discussion here to a debate between "Imperial" and "Metric". what the hell is Imperial, what is its energy unit and its force unit, and I mean consistent with the fundamental natural laws. And what do you mean by Metric---the 1990 electrical standards (inconsistent with the metal kilogram) are what one actually uses for accurate measurement at the national labs. So do you mean the official (antiquated) defs or the 1990 standards. Say! We must be bored by different things! How about that? I am bored by the metric system because it is so out-of-date and ugly. I like modern more completely decimal systems---think powers of ten are cool. Metric sucks bigtime---like how many electron volts does it take to make a joule? Is it a power of ten? No, it is 6,241,509,704 billion!!!! Metric's ugly non-decimal numbers are what is boring. Have a nice day, Richard. Unquote The electron-volt is not recognized in the modern metric system and I sent a message to the board, stating that fact. I said the only the joule should be used for energy. They could just as well have used the so-called 'metric' horse power to 'prove' their point. I blamed these inconsistencies not on the metric system but on human unwillingness to change. The metric system would not be in a flux if it was used properly. Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
